Secondary Schools:
History Screening Menu

Screening programmes are available in the following topic areas supporting topic coverage in NZQA and NCEA prescriptions. These are suggested topic areas only – requests are catered for on an individual basis. Stand alone titles from our Catalogue can also be requested - go to the Catalogue for full coverage of Film Archive holdings.

Most current History programmes have become titles in the new ON DISK library for secondary school loan. All titles however can be screened and guided by teachers from the Film archive team.

For ON DISK titles as screening options at the Archive mediaplex, refer to ON DISK

New Zealand at War 1939-45

Multi-chaptered DVD programme using original WWII footage and contemporary treatment of the period, changing roles and responsibilities during times of crisis for men, women and children in New Zealand, 1939-45. Brand new programme with new found footage and recent TV productions, providing a balance look at extraordinary times. (Years 9-13)

Century Images

A 20th century image collection of major events, ideals and personalities that influenced a growing society. From New Zealand's earliest surviving film (Boer War volunteers before embarkation in 1900), to New Zealanders on the Western Front (1918), The Invincibles in Britain (1924-5), Lovelock at the Berlin Olympics (1936), Michael Joseph Savage on the fledgling welfare state (1938), WWII propaganda, race relations in 1951, Vietnam, Tim Shadbolt with long haircut (1971), Robert Muldoon on a short fuse (1975), Norman Kirk on Mururoa (1973), Fred Dagg on school milk, the 1981 Springbok Tour, David Lange at the Oxford Union Debate (1985), Eva Rickard on the role of women (1993), the Millennium...

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